Andy Patrizio

The oversupply of memory on the world market has been talked about at length and now the other shoe has dropped, in the form of a vendor taking a big hit. Qimonda, the memory manufacturing subsidiary of Infineon, announced on Tuesday it will shut its only U.S. plant, killing around 1,500 jobs in the process. […]

Symantec is resurrecting a name from its past with the re-introduction of Norton Utilities, a set of new and updated tools to optimize PC performance. NU was last seen around 2004 before being merged in with Symantec’s Systemworks. However, as long as there are PCs there will always be poorly-running PCs. As Norton Utilities faded […]

The Top500 supercomputer list is computing’s game of leapfrog, where hardware vendors one-up each other in the performance space. IBM, which has long dominated the list, is about to put itself far, far ahead of anything ever seen on that list or promised. IBM (NYSE: IBM) and the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration […]

Rambus, the once high-flying computer memory designer, has announced what it’s hailing as a breakthrough for smart phones and mobile devices. The announcement touts higher performance within an acceptable power envelope for small devices. An earlier alliance with Intel several years ago failed to deliver and Rambus earned a reputation for suing its own customers. […]

No, not that Steve. I’ve given up on him. This message is for Mr. Sinofsky, whom I trust is a regular reader. Steve, you have managed to do something that I have never seen in all my time covering the tech sector, and that is create genuine excitement for a Windows release. Windows 95 was […]

A Google source code file has given a clear indication that Google is indeed working on its rumored GDrive cloud storage service, and what the company has in mind for the service. GDrive is reported to be Google’s (NASDAQ: GOOG) foray into a providing an online storage service. The rumors of its existence date back […]

With the number of chips per server and cores per chip increasing, future generations of servers may end up with way more processing power than the computer could possibly utilize, even under virtualization, Gartner has found. The research firm issued a report on the issue earlier this week. This doubling and doubling again of cores […]

The Uptime Institute is preparing to release a series of case studies that show many datacenters are not well managed and could become much more efficient without having to spend a dime on new gear. The research was done in 2008. The common sales pitch for achieving datacenter efficiency is to toss out all of […]

Sun Microsystems took the lessons from its Santa Clara, Calif. datacenter revamp from last year one step further into a huge consolidation project in Broomfield, Colo. While the moves represent bottom line efficiency gains for Sun (NASDAQ: JAVA), the experience also now serves as a model for its customers on how to maximize datacenter efficiency. […]

Sun Microsystems has been declared dead plenty of times. But its most recent quarter shows the company is very much alive — with some of its products even proving hits. The company reported a net loss of $209 million, or 28 cents per share for the second quarter of its fiscal 2009, ended Dec. 31. […]

Microsoft’s Windows 7 beta test continues to chug along, although that train route is about to end for public testers. Brandon LeBlanc, communications manager on the Windows client communications team, announced today that Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) would take the beta down come February 10. A newer build of the beta, build 7025, leaked to a […]

Microsoft posted the first Release Candidate (RC1) for its Internet Explorer 8 browser, as hinted by InternetNews.com. “Release Candidate” status means the product is done and now Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) is looking for showstopper bugs. The product is otherwise feature and functionality complete. In announcing the RC, IE General Manager Dean Hachamovitch said the product […]